Interesting . . .

Exactly!

Got it.
I was raised watching sports with my Dad, but I lost interest as an adult.
Many more things to do than sit watching.

FFA, I am not a big sports fan anyways. I recognize it as the Circus show that it is. I enjoy Hockey, but only watch LIVE at the stadium. I used to have season tickets for the Panthers! (Go Cats).

But I could not stand watching sports in general. I would rather be doing something.

Football, and I have a client who would take me to various games when he had an extra ticket (Orange Bowl, etc). Once they started kneeling, I just turned off all of the sports (Hockey, I felt was still doing the anthem, and Panthers were honoring Vets at the start of each game).

Finally, the only time I caught a sports clip was "Died Suddenly", lol.

Pro football only?
They disgusted me 30+ years ago when they stopped using instant replay to expose
bad referee calls and make games more about the play than the bad calls.
MLBaseball is gradually exposing how poor umpires are at calling balls and strikes.
Next season batters, catchers and pitchers will be able to challenge such calls.
I expect the umpires union to cry about that 'unfairness'.
They will be replaced by computer pitch analysis very soon thereafter.

I broke the football-fever decades ago. In the nutshell I was in a room with relatives at Thanksgiving time watching a game and suddenly my brain decided "this is boring" like watching the same movie over and over. Got up to find something else to do and never went back.

Do you know who the main shareholders are that are pushing this woke crap?

Blackwater and Vanguard. 'nuff said.

So now they make the right noises, blah blah, the words are good.

I am inclined to think, that with that level of stock price decline, resignations of both Chair and COO are more appropriate than apologies.

Same here. I got tired of trying to figure out which anti-American players and/or teams to root against, so I just stopped watching completely around Week 2 or 3 of the 2018 season, after being a completely rabid NFL fan for basically my entire life.

Haven't regretted that decision for one single second since then.

Here! Here! I quit watching when they were all kneeling! Haven't watched a game since then!

There is a reason I still refuse to watch Football.
They crossed a line so far, I will wait until the current set of coaches and owners DIE from DEI before I watch again. And if that means I never watch another game. So be it!

Yes, they are. The hard part is knowing which companies this shell game applies to.

Are you surprised? I'm not.

Over on the Q-tree there's a report by TradeBait who says it's a sinisterer scheme. Take down the companies and institutions that are especially favored by the America-first crowd. Take 'em over and take 'em out one at a time.

Go to https://www.theqtree.com/2025/08/27/k... and search for TradeBait2

A 9% owner... Could it be the same bandits that crushed Circuit City, etc. etc. etc.

The process. Get enough board control to get your people in. Setup lucrative Stock Price incentives, buy tons of call options. And start the manipulation game.

Sell your inventory to someone (a tertiary company you control), and they manage your inventory for you. Sell your property to another company, same setup, get some "teaser" rent rates, etc. etc. etc.

Now that you have this much lipstick on this pig. BUY your stock and announcer awesome earnings and cash flows. Profit on the calls, and the upside stock incentives. Then start buying the PUTS and Selling your shares...

Because NOW the contracts are reversed. The inventory leasing company will RAISE it's rates, as will the property owner. Now the company is going to have issues... BUT WAIT, they will offer up some BONDS, and pay these excessive fees.

The 9% owner controls 100% of these side-companies. They transfer ~200-300% of the profits out of the parent company, leaving it a hollow shell. They have already profited.

Their puts kick in and protect their downside. The step off the 9% ownership situation after selling a bit for the gains. And then take a small hit, maybe a 10% loss because of the PUT protection.

Then the company, it's name, it's IP, etc. Are sold off.

Meanwhile, they still own the properties.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

I believe both CVS and Walgreens are being run through this program.

GOOD NEWS! Cracker Barrel Cracked!
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/crack...
On the verge of going broke for trying to please the radical Woke along with dim Dem sheeple, CB learned that striving not to upset "the regular folks of middle America" is a far better good business model.

"Idea can have integrity, just like people and just as seldom." Ayn Rand

More details were on the Sunday episode of What the Frock by the same Dave Bowman on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jn1...